tstick
Well-Known Member
I'm a pretty old guy and I can remember throwing jars of seeds into drainage ditches along the roadsides in my rural, country farming community. If anything was still there at the end of the Summer, then that was the grow. Most of the time, nothing came of it. Sometimes we got a few small plants. There was always the risk that the farmers were spraying shit on their crops and the runoff water was going into those drainage ditches. We didn't even question it....wouldn't have even cared, tbh.
We would get bales of weed from Mexico and sometimes, the entire plants, including the root ball were in those bale. I saw spiders, red mites and many unidentified bugs. We sorted the bales as best we could and cleaned up a lot of that refuse.....and smoked that shit.
When I really became serious about growing the best quality weed that I could, there was no question that it would be in as "laboratory" of an environment as I could create....and that meant indoors! And I've done fairly well at it over the last 12 years or so. But even at that, I've run into some thrips and fungus gnats and the typical indoor pests. So, how on Earth, do you outdoor growers keep your plants dirt and bug-free? Or do you? I've read about bud washing, but I can't even imagine that being "the" answer. Even if you use predator bugs to kill the bad bugs, they ALL poop on the plants, regardless. And if you spray peppermint oil or other things like that, then that has to eave some kind of residue. Even rainwater that's taken from areas near a city, is dirty.
And the other thing is that every region has its own array of outdoor pests and climate challenges! It's never the same thing from place-to-place. One place has slugs. The next place has grubs...some places have weevils....etc. And then you have places where the outdoor humidity is like 90% all the time....or 20% all the time! Some places are really windy. Some places have huge temperature variance between night and day. You could be an expert grower in Florida and yet not know anything about growing in North Dakota!
Give me some more education, please.
We would get bales of weed from Mexico and sometimes, the entire plants, including the root ball were in those bale. I saw spiders, red mites and many unidentified bugs. We sorted the bales as best we could and cleaned up a lot of that refuse.....and smoked that shit.
When I really became serious about growing the best quality weed that I could, there was no question that it would be in as "laboratory" of an environment as I could create....and that meant indoors! And I've done fairly well at it over the last 12 years or so. But even at that, I've run into some thrips and fungus gnats and the typical indoor pests. So, how on Earth, do you outdoor growers keep your plants dirt and bug-free? Or do you? I've read about bud washing, but I can't even imagine that being "the" answer. Even if you use predator bugs to kill the bad bugs, they ALL poop on the plants, regardless. And if you spray peppermint oil or other things like that, then that has to eave some kind of residue. Even rainwater that's taken from areas near a city, is dirty.
And the other thing is that every region has its own array of outdoor pests and climate challenges! It's never the same thing from place-to-place. One place has slugs. The next place has grubs...some places have weevils....etc. And then you have places where the outdoor humidity is like 90% all the time....or 20% all the time! Some places are really windy. Some places have huge temperature variance between night and day. You could be an expert grower in Florida and yet not know anything about growing in North Dakota!
Give me some more education, please.
